Petercsák Tivadar – Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 44. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2008)
Cs. Schwalm Edit: A Dobó István Vármúzeum tudományos kutatási programjai (1958-2008)
Research into medieval castles started at the museum in 1989, and the accompanying lectures are published in volume form. Since 1990 research has been organized by the Castrum Bene Association , and it is they who publish the volumes. The rescue digs carried out on the projected route of the M3 motorway have involved major research work in a number of counties. Between 1993 and 1996 forty archaeological sites were recorded in our county alone. The work ended with a joint travelling exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue containing a summary of the kind of findings that appeared in the archaeological journals. The István Dobó Castle Museum became the Hungarian representative of the "Early Farmers in Europe" project which formed part of the Raphael Programme launched by the European Union Commission. A number of international conferences were held, and it culminated in a travelling exhibition, accompanied by a multilingual catalogue. In the past few years the biggest of the ethnographical research programmes has been Tradition and Survival in Heves County, between 2000 and 2005. This has involved the recording, organization and presentation of Heves County's folk art heritage in an effort to promote the handicrafts and local tourism. The multifaceted programme has resulted in the following: the Heves County Folk Art Database , which contains artefacts, all of which have been digitally recorded from 38 public and private collections containing objects with links to Heves County. The Folk Applied Arts Archive records the work of practising folk artists, together with their biographical details. There have been two exhibitions (Our Folk Art Heritage and Living Folk Art in Heves County ) both of which were accompanied by catalogues. Video films have been made about the folk artists, and we have purchased objects from them on behalf of the folk arts collection. A book entitled The Folk Art of Heves County has also been published. It contains twelve chapters on 605 pages, accompanied by 720 photographs. Those working at the museum, along with researchers at other institutions, have taken place in several research projects dedicated to municipal history (Gyöngyös, Heves, Eger). 311
